THE WORLD OF INTERIORS

Interiors

Heir on a Shoestring

When the family who owned the ‘lofty’ Palazzo Forani piqued the Pope, penury saw them fall back on faux marble, papier-peint and other eye-fooling economies to keep alive the illusion of their vast riches

Culture

Six Appeal

An exhibition at MoMu in Antwerp is a reminder of the collective brilliance of Ann, Dries, Marina, Walter and the two Dirks – the city’s celebrated sextet of fashion designers – and not just on the catwalk. Forty years after their breakthrough, the world is waking up to the influence they had on interiors too

Architecture

Global Ambition

As Helios, the supermassive sun sculpture by Luke Jerram, goes on show in Birmingham, we train our telescopes on another solar entity – the Sun King, Louis XIV, and his monumental Marly Globes, which dwarfed anything else being made at the time

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FILM

Manners Maketh the Manor

Every historic stately home in possession of its original Medieval features is in want of a good family to live there full-time and make it feel complete. And after years as something of a spare part, Haddon Hall in Derbyshire – aka ‘the most perfect house to survive from the Middle Ages’ – finally has one

Author Directory

Explore a comprehensive A-Z resource of the 400-plus authors who have contributed to the magazine. Find writers and commentators whose interviews, columns, essays and adventures are available to read on our website, with selected archival contributions from our 45-year history. Discover more about each author, and read their often profound, always illuminating musings on interiors, style, visual arts and more

This month’s featured contributors

SB Divya

Writer

Kenneth Goldsmith

Writer

Olivia Bennett

Photographer

Lottie Delamain

Writer

Roger Davies

Photographer

Bill McKay

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Houses

The Flatpack Tabernacle

In the 1870s, the good burghers of Faversham bought a ready-to-assemble corrugated-iron church ‘with lining’. Today, its sole congregation is kitchen designer (and lapsed Catholic) Nick Kenny. He talks to Alice Moro about the resonance of rain on metal and installing his own stairway to heaven